Richardson v. United States

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · Decided 1988-03-14

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POOLE, Circuit Judge: These Federal Tort Claims Act cases arise out of an accident in which plaintiffs were severely burned by electricity from power lines owned and operated by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), a federal agency. In a prior appeal, this *995 Court reversed a judgment in favor of the government, holding that the trial judge had applied the wr…

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